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Simply changing into the next gear – without thinking about it. Hygiene experts wish that hygiene measures – particularly hand hygiene – during medical and nursing activities were carried out as automatically as driving a car....[more]

Three questions to Prof. Dr. med. Frank Martin Brunkhorst, University Hospital of Jena, Germany, Centre for Clinical Studies, Paul-Martini Research Group for Clinical Sepsis Research, Clinic for Anaesthesiology and Intensive...[more]

Nosocomial infections (NI) belong to the most common complications of a hospital stay. The clinic-wide ALERTS study of the Integrated Research and Treatment Centre for Sepsis Control & Care at the University Hospital of Jena,...[more]

Three questions to Prof. Dr. med. Günter Kampf.
You plead for more quality instead of quantity in hygiene – what measures are dispensable?Günter Kampf: Our intervention study confirmed the hypothesis that it is difficult for...[more]

Since 2006, WHO has established its “5 Moments for Hand Hygiene” through national campaigns, for example the “Aktion Saubere Hände” (Clean Hands Campaign) in Germany. The objective is to increase hand disinfection compliance in...[more]

Three questions to Joachim Prölß, Director of Nursing and Patient Organisation and member of the board of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
You repeatedly compare hygiene with flight safety. How high is...[more]

The public awareness of “hygiene scandals” rises. The failure of some hospitals to adequately protect patients against infections is opposed to clear legal specifications and regulations.
In Germany, hospital operators are...[more]